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The Florists^ Review 



April 8, 1920 



BUFFALO, N. Y, 



The Market. 



The market for last week was a 

 record-breaking Easter rush. Favored 

 ■with ideal weather for this time of year, 

 the week opened Monday, March 29, 

 with a rush and closed with a runaway. 

 Although more stock could be had at the 

 greenhouses, especially in the plant line, 

 Sunday noon found all the shops sold 

 out. Whether it was conservatism on 

 the part of shop managers or not, every 

 report is that big business was done and 

 all are well satisfied. 



In the cut flower line there was none 

 too much stock and many more sweet 

 peas and violets could have been sold. 

 By all indications, the Easter corsages 

 were an important item with the 

 retail shops, and for these the most 

 popular flower is the sweet pea. Boses 

 were also short of the demand, the only 

 plentiful flowers being daffodils and 

 carnations. The carnations have been 

 more than plentiful during the last two 

 weeks. F. P. A. 



SEATTLE NOTES. 



[Concluded from page 60.] 



on Easter lilies in good style and 

 cleaned up considerably more stock than 

 a year ago. 



Growers are finding it difficult to 

 maintain a large enough supply of small 

 ferns, is the statement of C. S. Mac- 

 Manus, of the Madison Park Green- 

 houses. He states that the crop of lilies 

 was all that could have been desired as 

 to quality, despite some trouble in the 

 early part of March with an inclination 

 to bloom too soon. 



A fine 2-color illustration of the lily 

 house at the Hollywood Gardens was 

 used as the cover piece for the 

 Town Crier, a local weekly, Saturday, 

 March 27. This was handled in green 

 and white and made a fine showing. Ad- 

 ditional motion pictures of the gardens 

 and city store were taken during the 

 week and Dr. Walter A. Moore expects 

 to show these pictures shortly. 



William Goldsbary, of Kenney's 

 Home of Flowers, spent several days in 

 Vancouver, B. C, last week on a com- 

 bined business and pleasure trip. M. 



Why Spend Money for Repairs 



when through the use of con- 

 crete benches al 1 such e.v penses 

 are eliminated? Concrete im- 

 proves appearances— the first 

 cost is the last cost. 



READY-SET CONCRETE BENCHES 



are easily, ouickly and inex- 

 pensively built— you can build 

 them yourself. Send for in- 

 formation that will prove con- 

 clusively they are better and 

 cheaper than wood. 



FRED J. MEAD. 371 Park Atc, Newark. N. J. 



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Here^s How C. & J. Hold Down 

 the High Cost of Hose Holding 



You know how the frames drink up water these 

 spring days, when Old Sol begins to get his 

 strength back. 



It's water — water — water, all the time. 



Men hauling and holding hose, just when you 

 need everybody every minute to fill orders, and 

 move plants, and repot, and transplant. 



It's enough to frazzle one's nerves — and 

 expense account— completely! 



This hose-holding expense got so serious at the 

 plant of Conard & Jones, at West Grove, Pa., 

 that they decided to buy the Skinner System. 



Now one man turns a valve and waters a whole 

 string of frames at once. Waters them better. 

 And then goes on with his other work too, be- 

 cause the Skinner System of rain when you 

 want it, works by itself. 



You can have a line like the one above working 

 in a couple of hours after you receive it. 



Send for our new book; tells all about the Skin- 

 ner System. 



THE SKINNER IRRIGATION CO. 



223 Water Street TROY, OHIO 



